dtmf

Package for working with DTMF - a system for signaling over the voice band of a telephony system using multi-frequency tones.

Features

• Parses dial strings (digits, symbols, etc.) into an object representation
• Constructs dial strings from element objects
• Detects the presence and position of DTMF tones in an audio buffer
• Generates DTMF audio from dial strings

Installation

pip install dtmf

What is DTMF?

Dual-tone multi-frequency signaling (DTMF) is a telecommunication signaling system used between telephone equipment and other communications devices. DTMF became known in the United States as 'Touch-Tone' for use in push-button telephones supplied to telephone customers.

DTMF tones use a mixture of two sine waves at different frequencies. Eight different audio frequencies are combined in pairs to make 16 unique tones. A tone is assigned to each of the digits from 0 to 9, the letters A to D, and the symbols # and *. The combination used for each tone are as follows:

Dial string syntax

A dial string is a textual representation of a sequence of DTMF digits and/or symbols. This format is commonly used as input to a telephone modem or another telephony device with automatic dialing as instructions for dialing the recipient of an outgoing call.

Dial strings use the following DTMF symbols:

• 0-9
• A-D
• * or E
• # or F

In addition to the 16 DTMF symbols, dial strings support the following additional symbols:

• P or , for a momentary pause (usually 2 seconds)

Usage

Parsing a dial string

from dtmf import parse

dial_str = "5551234,500#"

obj = parse(input)

print(repr(obj))

Output:

String([
    Tone("5"),
    Tone("5"),
    Tone("5"),
    Tone("1"),
    Tone("2"),
    Tone("3"),
    Tone("4"),
    Pause(),
    Tone("5"),
    Tone("0"),
    Tone("0"),
    Tone("#")
])

Constructing a dial string

import dtmf.model as model

obj = model.String([
    model.Tone("5"),
    model.Tone("5"),
    model.Tone("5"),
    model.Tone("1"),
    model.Tone("2"),
    model.Tone("3"),
    model.Tone("4"),
    model.Pause(),
    model.Tone("5"),
    model.Tone("0"),
    model.Tone("0"),
    model.Tone("#")
])

print(str(obj))

Output:

5551234,500#

Detecting DTMF tones in an audio buffer

from dtmf import detect

# list of audio samples as floats
data = [...]
sample_rate = 8000

results = detect(data, sample_rate)

for result in results:
    print(f"{result.start:<3d} - {result.end:>5d} : {result.tone!s}")

Output:

  0 - 105 : 5
105 - 210 : 5
210 - 315 : 5
315 - 420 : 5
420 - 525 : None
...

Generating DTMF audio from a dial string

from dtmf import generate
import dtmf.model as model

obj = model.String([
    model.Tone("5"),
    model.Tone("5"),
    model.Tone("5"),
    model.Tone("1"),
    model.Tone("2"),
    model.Tone("3"),
    model.Tone("4"),
    model.Pause(),
    model.Tone("5"),
    model.Tone("0"),
    model.Tone("0"),
    model.Tone("#")
])

audio = generate(obj)

Support

Please use the project's Issues page to report any issues.

Contributing

Installing for development

poetry install

Linting source files

poetry run pylint --rcfile .pylintrc src/dtmf

Running tests

poetry run pytest

License

This library is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.